Who fears and acts upon what seers breeze of Avignon?

Just finished this (while walking around outside): it strikes me that any “choice” a brain makes involves enough moving pieces that the process would make a very large number of Everettian branches (rather than a single mostly metaphorical one)

Bullying myself too much this morning about how easy I make it to bully myself… ….which sort of implies there’s a correct amount… (shoves self into a locker)

Done deal? That's a fait accompli. Fun meal? That's a fete accompli. Spun wheel? That's a fate accompli. Blowgun zeal? That's inflate accompli.

Holy mother of pearl! What a game! What an ending!

Vozinha!!!

Yooooooo gooooool!

Holding Argentina to a draw in regulation. That's impressive!

Goooooooool!

One cannot help but love an underdog

nuts

Horrible… but as an inveterate messer-about and fixer of things, I’m not sure this is the worst way to go in a live by the tinker, die by the tinker sort of sense.

I feel it is my place as a father to not be angry… just very very very very disappointed

RNA is bio-ba ssRNASeq is bouba Clustering imposes kiki Trajectorizing imposes kiki kiki is bio-ba

“…as for the State, every Government,and all even the mildest Administration is, in their Gibberish,Tyranny, if it does not pass through their hands, and is not managed according to their Humours.”

That was a thing

I got the nicest unexpected gift (a fan tuan) this morning and honestly my week is made

Algae Proud Furry Curry (accidental Wordle poem from yesterday)

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

We played a whole session of ShadowDark and we didn’t die?!

Interpretive graphing should be a thing somehow

My dear, while I am not wholly convinced of the advice to look up from my endless pages of novelty to “touch palms” as a panacea, this is quite nice #GirlsOwnCC

“Tool” has too much of a sense of control, I suppose for my taste. I think it’s like ecosystems. You’re in them, like it or not; you can (with effort) effect them and use them, but that changes their behavior and the other parts of them will react to that effort in not entirely predictable ways.

The walk from here to sesquipedalia, however arduous and tedious is worth the effort in my experience

Bacteriophage

I can create eddies by sticking my hand in a river, but it seems like a safe bet that those eddies won’t last any longer than any other eddies from all the other hands in the river. I dunno know that the control of any of those eddies is control of the river

I feel that for space opera the mandate is of the Heavens and whether they can take the sky from me

It is possible to be firm and to be rigorous without being mean, but basically pleasant murder poets are a bit rare

I suppose “spaces over times attractor” has less poetry but I dig the model

“the devil take the hindmost” is deeply human, but not humane

The best thing I got this weekend was a fist bump from a dog.

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC

Sopapillas are the best! Right out of the oil with a bit of honey.

The Doctor is literally an itinerant physician. The Tardis is a mobile hospital for terrible times and places. The companions are volunteer emergency responders, nurses, etc. A bit like the Pitt, but with aliens. The Doctor heals or manages symptoms or provides palliative care as best can

How many neurons does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a cognitive pop? www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...

Said a spokesperson for chimps and elephants, "Fuck you, we're not a problem to solve" www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...

Misread as “crackling” and while chicharrones are probably bad for me, they do tasty, I will die (eventually but contentedly) on that hill

I’m not going to worry about a typo, but it did put me in mind of Missy and how much I enjoyed that character

Tired: tubes Wired: also tubes Conspired: still tubes

I feel like the graph of my distribution of political commitments on any axes would be an incoherent average of multimodal extremisms, but what centrist doesn’t think that of their perfect balance of beliefs?

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

As he spied the rascal darting into traffic: “Observe, my dear, why they call it ‘ponying up’” #GirlsOwnCC

Spirit Islanding… glad we started early

“leitmotif” should be pronounced LIT-mo-teef ONLY for that subset that announces the arrival of elder millennials. LATE-mo-teef for the recently dead LIGHT-mo-teef for miracle grifters LITE-mo-teef for diet grifters LET-mo-teef for cooking?? (workshopping would have helped)

The parable of the Good Samaritan needs another person who justifies crossing to other side of the road when the victim couldn’t explicitly ask for specific help

Hope springs eternal from little dark, unexpected places

If I had a dot for every time that happened… I’d have a pretty big pointillism… Maybe I oughta stick with nickels nah

Too many nursery rhymies I would try to refrain but my anxious brain Well, it stymies that train

Grate, grate Engagement bait Great… great… I’m in a state